Why Capper Is a Monomaniac

Capper's adventure in blogging has become dull, indeed. Every day, two or three times a day, it's bash Walker. Once a week it's butterflies; once a month it's go-up-north-and-bitch about Bush.

Or something.

Well, there's a reason that Capper and his masters at AFSCME are fixated on defeating Walker.

The central battle in our time is over political primacy. It is a competition between the public sector and the private sector over who defines the work and the institutions that make a nation thrive and grow.

Henninger's right, and the unions know it.

What's the big deal? Well, in Massachusetts:

...spending in specific public categories there skyrocketed the past 20 years (1987 to 2007).

Public safety: up 139%; social services, 130%; education, 44%. And of course Medicaid Madness, up 163%, before MassCare kicked in more Medicaid obligations.

Most likely, the Wisconsin numbers are comparable; it's possible that they're even worse.

And when FOUR mayoral candidates from a "conservative" area have already rolled over to Big Government without a peep, it's going to be worse.